THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Michael Cuthbertson September 3, 2011
I spent my summer in two places: the wilderness and working in a bar. In both venues, I met a lot of people with conspiracy theories. I heard things like “You know, there’s a lot of shit going on we aren’t told about.”
“Like what?” I would ask. Then they would start listing things.
By Project Syndicate August 28, 2011
The Internet’s governing body, ICANN, is allowing for a dramatic expansion of the namespace with a host of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs), the suffixes that go after the dot, such as .com, .org, and, soon, .anything.
By Project Syndicate August 22, 2011
Amid a growing wave of concern about climate change, many countries — including Brazil, Australia, the US, and EU members — passed laws in the 2000’s outlawing or severely restricting access to incandescent light bulbs. But the real problem, as ever, is that the new technology is not yet as attractive as the old.
By Project Syndicate August 21, 2011
While the human race took perhaps one million years to reach one billion people (around the year 1800), we have been adding successive billions every 10-20 years since 1960. Will we be able to meet the population challenge, just as we have met previous challenges, through technological and institutional innovation?
By Michael Cuthbertson August 13, 2011
The year is 2011. By now, we should have flying DeLoreans and alien overlords. In reality, 2011 only offers the same crap we saw last decade. What’s worse, 2011 marks the end of NASA’s manned space shuttle program.
By Canadian University Press June 30, 2011
If a word or a language can call to mind not just denotations or connotations, but powerful and even painful recollections of a loved one, how wary should we be of limiting our vocabulary?
By Michael Cuthbertson June 20, 2011
When I first made my way to Nelson to face the wilderness, I had visions of spiritual awakening à la the Beatles’ retreat to India, except it turns out the lifestyle is more akin to Survivorman
By Bryn Becker June 18, 2011
Summer school isn’t all bad. In fact, the summer class lifestyle is so different, I’m convinced I’ve stumbled across the university’s best kept educational secret.